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Climate teleconnections and recent patterns of human and animal disease outbreaks. [PDF]
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2012 Recent clusters of outbreaks of mosquito-borne diseases (Rift Valley fever and chikungunya) in Africa and parts of the Indian Ocean islands illustrate how interannual climate variability influences the changing risk patterns of disease outbreaks ...
Assaf Anyamba +9 more
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Prevalence and associated factors of human haemorrhagic fevers in Senegal: a comprehensive analysis of Hantaan, Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever and Rift Valley fever [PDF]
Frontiers in Public HealthIntroductionViral haemorrhagic fevers such as Rift Valley fever, Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever, and hantavirus disease continue to threaten public health in Africa.
Maryam Diarra +14 more
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Clinics in Laboratory Medicine, 2017 Rift Valley fever (RVF) is a severe veterinary disease of livestock that also causes moderate to severe illness in people. The life cycle of RVF is complex and involves mosquitoes, livestock, people, and the environment. RVF virus is transmitted from either mosquitoes or farm animals to humans, but is generally not transmitted from person to person ...
Rim Kahloun, Imen Ksiaa, Sonia Zaouali
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Rift Valley Fever Outbreak during COVID-19 Surge, Uganda, 2021
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2022 Rift Valley fever, endemic or emerging throughout most of Africa, causes considerable risk to human and animal health. We report 7 confirmed Rift Valley fever cases, 1 fatal, in Kiruhura District, Uganda, during 2021.
Caitlin M. Cossaboom +18 more
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, 2020 Rift Valley fever is an epizootic acute febrile illness primarily affecting domesticated sheep and cattle, with the capacity to infect humans, caused by Rift Valley fever (RVF) virus, an arthropod-borne phlebovirus in the Bunyaviridae family. It is transmitted via contact with body fluids of infected livestock or, less commonly, bites by infected ...
A. Parikh +5 more
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Rift Valley fever vaccines [PDF]
Vaccine, 2009 Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV), which belongs to the genus Phlebovirus, family Bunyaviridae, is a negative-stranded RNA virus carrying a tripartite RNA genome. RVFV is transmitted by mosquitoes and causes large outbreaks among ruminants and humans in Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.
Tetsuro, Ikegami, Shinji, Makino
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PLoS ONE, 2020 Outbreaks of Rift Valley fever have devastating impacts on ruminants, humans, as well as on regional and national economies. Although numerous studies on the impact and outbreak of Rift Valley fever exist, relatively little is known about the role of ...
Anna M Verster +11 more
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Seroprevalence of alphavirus antibodies in a cross-sectional study in southwestern Tanzania suggests endemic circulation of chikungunya. [PDF]
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2014 BACKGROUND: To date, Alphavirus infections and their most prominent member, chikungunya fever, a viral disease which first became apparent in Tanzania in 1953, have been very little investigated in regions without epidemic occurrence.
Nina Weller +9 more
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The Lancet Global Health, 2016 Background: Rift Valley fever virus is an emerging mosquito-borne virus that causes infections in animals and human beings in Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.
Maria Baudin, MSc +8 more
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Rift Valley fever virus outbreak in Mauritania yet again in 2022: No room for complacency
Health Science Reports, 2023 Rift Valley fever is an important yet ignored viral hemorrhagic fever claiming many lives of African and Arabian countries over the past decade. Unfortunately, a recent outbreak of Rift Valley fever is currently ravaging in Mauritania.
Shehroze Tabassum +5 more
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